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猎户座星云团中大质量恒星的磁场、风和X射线

Magnetic fields, winds and X-rays of massive stars in the Orion Nebula Cluster

V. Petit, G. A. Wade, L. Drissen, T. Montmerle, E. Alecian

摘要:

在大质量恒星中,磁场被认为限制了向外流动的辐射驱动风,导致X射线发射比非磁风中不稳定性产生的冲击更硬,更多变,更有效。虽然恒星风的磁约束已被证明可以强烈地改变大质量OB星的质量损失和X射线特性,但我们对负责的复杂过程缺乏详细的了解。本研究的目的是探讨OB星的磁性、星风和X射线辐射之间的关系。结合钱德拉调查的猎户座星云团,我们进行了spectropolarimatric ESPaDOns观测,以确定该集群的大质量OB星的磁性。

英文摘要:

In massive stars, magnetic fields are thought to confine the outflowing radiatively-driven wind, resulting in X-ray emission that is harder, more variable and more efficient than that produced by instability-generated shocks in non-magnetic winds. Although magnetic confinement of stellar winds has been shown to strongly modify the mass-loss and X-ray characteristics of massive OB stars, we lack a detailed understanding of the complex processes responsible. The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between magnetism, stellar winds and X-ray emission of OB stars. In conjunction with a Chandra survey of the Orion Nebula Cluster, we carried out spectropolarimatric ESPaDOnS observations to determine the magnetic properties of massive OB stars of this cluster.

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